In my opinion a good spring migration day belongs to one of the most exciting and overwhelming birding experiences in the Low Lands (Belgium and the Netherlands). Since I’m 18 years old, I spent almost every year a few days watching birds along our Atlantic coast during the spring migration.

During the last two days of the Eastern Holidays in 2016, Erika and I visited the Forêt de Saou in the Drome. The forest is well known for its Carabus diversity and for holding an amazing variety of different colour morphs of Carabus monilis.

During the Eastern holidays of 2016, Erika and I spent four days in the Var with my main mission: finally finding Carabus solieri. On a previous attempt, during the summer holidays of 2015 I already spent 8 days in the National Park of the Mercantour in the French Alpes Maritimes.